Mysterious freezing rig

jokerjake · 5 May 2012 at 21:14

I recently upgraded from an ancient socket 775 rig and decided to take the leap to a new Ivybridge i7 with a Z77 motherboard and DDR3 ram to match.

Only thing is now after having everything set up correctly - I've been experiencing random full computer freezes of which I'd have to reset the computer (which actually doesn't reset straight away, it takes a few minutes, then decides to reset). And yes, I'm getting no sort of blue screen either.

My new specs are as follows:
CPU - Intel Core i7 3770
RAM - 8GB Kingston DDR3 HyperX
MOBO - Gigabyte Z77-H77-D3H
HD1 - Corsair 64GB SSD Sata 3.0
HD2 -Samsung 750GB HDD Sata 2.0

I've now also put my socket 775 setup back into my computer, and its still randomly freezing (anywhere from 5 minutes from starting up... to a couple of hours)

Does this only leave the SSD and/or HDD to be the problem?

olivier renault · 5 May 2012 at 22:57

possible. Maybe a dodgy sata cable? PSU?

jokerjake · 6 May 2012 at 00:16

Dodgey Sata cable is a maybe I guess... I'll have to swap all of them around with new ones and see if it persists.

And I'm using a 850watt cooler master silent PSU... and its pretty new so I doubt it anything to do with that?

Hagar · 6 May 2012 at 01:29

Put a windows install on the HDD and see if it is the SSD playing up.

Was it a new windows install? Were the disks changed from IDE to AHCI at any time?

andy

olivier renault · 6 May 2012 at 01:37

jokerjake said:
Dodgey Sata cable is a maybe I guess... I'll have to swap all of them around with new ones and see if it persists.

And I'm using a 850watt cooler master silent PSU... and its pretty new so I doubt it anything to do with that?

Good PSU. Wouldn't be my first thought, but PSU's can be dodgy like anything else.

jokerjake · 6 May 2012 at 13:35

nkata said:
Put a windows install on the HDD and see if it is the SSD playing up.

Was it a new windows install? Were the disks changed from IDE to AHCI at any time?

andy

After running various tests and prime 95 all night on just the SSD... it didn't freeze once. *edit* I updated the firmware AFTER these tests as well. *edit*

I've just pulled the SSD out and installed windows onto the HDD (with a new sata cable as well). Currently not getting any freezes but i do get a massive drop in speeds when i benchmark with HD Tune... for instance it'll jump from 90mbps to 0.9mbps.. is this normal? I've also ran a disk check and it didn't find anything.

olivier renault · 6 May 2012 at 15:21

You mean sustained speeds / benchmarking, or just general usage? General usage yeah, that'd be normal, the performance would be somewhat erratic (HDD seek times are what keeps them slow).

You tried a defrag?

jokerjake · 6 May 2012 at 15:32

olivier renault said:
You mean sustained speeds / benchmarking, or just general usage? General usage yeah, that'd be normal, the performance would be somewhat erratic (HDD seek times are what keeps them slow).

You tried a defrag?

Yeah defragged not too long ago.. I'm running it off the HDD now without any freezing so far... very likely that this was all caused by a sata cable